ONNOGHEN, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the Judgment of Hon. Justice S. Kunle Ajayi of the High Court of Justice, Ondo State holden in Ijero-Ekiti in Suit No. HCJ/35/91 delivered on the 31st day of March, 1995 in which he dismissed the claim of the Appellants, then as Plaintiffs.
By a writ of summons filed by the appellants at the High Court, the Plaintiffs claimed against the defendants, now respondents, as follows:
"(a) a declaration that the purported appointment by the Government of first defendant, third, fourth, fifth and sixth defendants as warrant chiefs to appoint a new Ajero of Ijero-Ekiti is illegal, wrongful, against the native law, custom and tradition of Ijero-Ekiti, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever.
(b) a declaration that the purported appointment of second defendant as the new Ajero of ljero-Ekiti by third, Fourth, fifth and sixth defendants is illegal, wrongful, against the native law, custom and traditi…